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Re: [NANOG] Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol () NorthShoreTechnologies net>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 00:36:44 -0500
Vadim Antonov wrote:
(BTW, if you're an Itailan, DNS is not a much of help if you want to find CNN - www.cnn.it is _not_ a real CNN :) And www.pbs.com is _not_ PBS TV, you should use www.pbs.org instead. And typing IRS into location bar of the browser gets you nowhere - www.irs.com is not the Internal Revenue Service, etc, etc. Cursory tour of DNS produces thousands of examples like those.
The United States Postal Service registered both usps.gov and usps.com (and publicizes .com, FWIW). But I bet there are plenty of sites that didn't do that, or couldn't because the names were already taken.
The point is - hierarchical naming or categorization is not useful in general case.
You'd rather memorize IP addresses instead? You're a better man than I. :) /me rushes to register nanog.net and nanog.com. Woops; both are already taken. -- Steven J. Sobol/CTO/JustThe.net LLC | sjsobol () NorthShoreTechnologies net SAY IT LOUD: I'M GEEK AND I'M PROUD! | 888.480.4NET (4638) 216.619.2NET (2638) http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net | http://ClevelandProductions.com http://JustThe.net | Powered by Linux, pizza, Coke, Cuervo, and cheap beer.
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- Re: [NANOG] Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play Andrea Abrahamsen (Mar 07)
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